SPORT CLIPS IS A Proud Sponsor of
NASCAR'S Joe Gibbs Racing
Sport Clips Racing enters its 17th season in 2025 as a partner with Joe Gibbs Racing as a Family of Drivers Sponsor and a year-long associate sponsor on the #11 Sport Clips Toyota Camry XSE.
Denny Hamlin enters his 20th season with Joe Gibbs Racing, with Sport Clips as a season-long associate sponsor on NASCARS’s #11 Toyota Camry XSE. The Chesterfield, Virginia native has cemented himself as one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history after becoming only the 15th driver to claim 50 NASCAR Cup Series victories. Hamlin has qualified for the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs in 18 of his 19 seasons (2006-2012 and 2014-2024). He has scored seven wins driving the Sport Clips paint scheme - an Xfinity Series win at Richmond Raceway in 2011 and victories at Atlanta Motor Speedway (Cup, 2012) and Darlington Raceway (Cup, 2017; Xfinity, 2015, 2017, 2023). Most recently, Hamlin won the 2024 Clash at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum driving the Sport Clips colors.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
- 2016, 2019, 2020 Daytona 500 Winner
- 2010, 2017, 2021 Southern 500 Winner
- 2022 Coca-Cola 600 Winners
- 2015 All-Star Race Winner
- 2006 NASCAR Cup Series Rookie of the Year
Chase Briscoe is in his first year with Joe Gibbs Racing, running the No. 19 Bass Pro Shop Toyota Camry. Prior to Joe Gibbs Racing, Briscoe competed for Stewart-Haas Racing in the No. 14 car. After winning the NASCAR Cup Series rookie-of-the-year title in 2021, Briscoe won in just the fourth start of his sophomore season. On March 13, 2022 at Phoenix Raceway, Briscoe took the checkered flag in just his 40th career Cup Series start. The victory secured Briscoe's place in the 2022 NASCAR Playoffs and earned him the honor of being the 200th Cup Series winner in NASCAR history. Briscoe captured his second Cup Series victory in 2024 when he won the 75th running of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway, advancing him into the NASCAR Playoffs for the second time in three years.
Briscoe earned his way to the Cup Series in 2021 after an impressive stint in the Xfinity Series. In 2020, the Mitchell, Indiana native won nine Xfinity Series races. Overall, Briscoe collected 11 wins before moving up the Cup Series, with his first career Xfinity Series win coming at the Chartlotte ROVAL in 2018 in just his 14th start.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
- 2024 Southern 500 Winner - Darlingotn Raceway; NASCAR Playoffs: Round of 16
- 2022 First career NASCAR Cup series win - Phoenix Raceway; NASCAR Playoffs: Round of 8
- 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Rookie of the Year
- 2020 Nine NASCAR Xfinity Series wins; NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoffs: Championship 4
- 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series win - Iowa Speedway; NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoffs: Round of 8; NASCAR Xfinity Series Rookie of the Year
- 2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series debut; First NASCAR Xfinity Series win - Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL
- 2017 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Rookie of the Year; NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Most Popular Driver; First NASCAR CRAFSTMAN Truck Series - Homestead-Miami Speedway
- 2016 ARCA Menards Series Champion
- 2007 Youngest person to win a 410 spring car race, breaking previous record (14-years-old) held by NASCAR Hall of Famer and four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon
Christopher Bell enters his sixth season in the NASCAR Cup Series and fifth behind the wheel of the No. 20 Toyota Camry XSE for Joes Gibbs Racing (JGR) in 2025. Adam Stevens will continue as crew chief and the duo look to make another run for the Championship.
Bell had a banner year in 2024 with three wins (Phoenix, Charlotte and New Hampshire) and his third-consecutive Round of 8 appearance in the NASCAR Playoffs. He led the series with a career-high 23 top-10 finishes and posted career-bests in top-five finishes (15), laps led (1,145) and stage wins (11). In 2023, Bell earned wo NCS victories and locked himself into the final four for the second year in a row. In addition to back-to-back playoff runs, Bell earned the Busch Light Pole Award, recognizing his series-high six pole starting positions throughout the season. Overall, Bell closed out the 2023 NCS season with two wins (Bristol Dirt and Homestead), 10 top-five and 19 top-10 finishes.
Bell earned three victorities in 2022, including walk-off wins at Charlotte ROVAL and Martinsville to propel him throughout the Championship and lock him into the final four. Bell finished the season third in points with three wins, 12 top-five and 20 top-10 finishes, four poles and over 500 laps led. In 2021, Bell earned his first NCS win in just the second start of the season at the Daytona Road Course, locking him into the Playoff field. In his sophomore NCS season Bell earned one win, seven top-five, 16 top-10 finishes and closed out the season 12th in the standings. Bell made the most of his rookie year in the Cup Series in 2020 during a worldwide pandemic and despite not having practice and qualifying was able to grow and improve throughout the season, earning two top-five and seven top-10 finishes. The 2018 NXS season was Bell's first full year competing in the series. Bell found his way to victory lane seven times in 2018, setting the win record by a Rookie. In addition to the record seven wins, Bell started form the pole position five time and earned 10 top-five and 18 top-10 finishes. Bell captured the 2017 NASCAR Truck Series Championship in his second full-time season.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
- 2024 - Third Consecutive Round of 8 appearance; 3 NASCAR Cup Series wins
- 2023 - Second Consecutive Championship 4 appearance; 2 NASCAR Cup Series wins; Busch Light Pole Award winner
- 2022 - 2 NASCAR Cup Series wins - first driver to qualify for the Championship 4 in all three series
- 2021 - Earned first NASCAR Cup Series victory with his win on the Daytona Road Course
- 2020 - First full year competing in the NASCAR Cup Series
- 2019 - 8 NASCAR Xfinity Series Wins & Chili Bowl Winner
- 2018 - 7 NASCAR Xfinity Series Wins (set the rookie single season NXS win record) & Chili Bowl Winner
- 2017 - NASCAR Truck Series Champion & Chili Bowl Winner
Ty Gibbs is in his second full season season in the NASCAR Cup Series and was awarded the 2023 NASCAR Cup Rookie of the Year award. He is the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series Champion, 2021 ARCA Menard's Series Champion and 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Rookie of the Year. He's just 21 years old, but had four top-five and 10 top-10 finishes in the Cup Series in 2023. And in just 59 career Xfinity starts, he won 12 races, scored 39 top-10 finishes and led 1,434 laps. His NASCAR Cup career got started in the summer of 2022 as he filled in for the injured Kurt Busch for 23XI Racing. In Gibbs' Xfinity Series debut in February 2023 at the Daytona International Speedway Road Course, he led 14 of the 56 laps en route to his first career Xfinity Series win. Gibbs became the youngest driver to win an Xfinity road course race at 18 years, 4 months, 16 days. The Charlotte, N.C., native also became the second-youngest winner in Xfinity Series history after Joey Logano, who won in June 2008 at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta when he was 18 years and 21 days old.
DARLINGTON RACEWAY PARTNERSHIP
Sport Clips has a long-standing partnership with Darlington Raceway, having served as the entitlement partner of the NASCAR XFINITY Series Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200 race at the famed South Carolina track since 2012.
The Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200 event has been one of the top events on the XFINITY Series race schedule, producing winners such as Denny Hamlin (2023, 2017, and 2015), Brandon Jones (2020), Brad Keslowski (2018), and Elliott Sadler (2016).
This year, the Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200 will move from Labor Day weekend to the first weekend in April - April 5-6, 2025. Darlington Raceway will celebrate its 75th anniversary during the Official Throwback Weekend of NASCAR. Christopher Bell will drive the #19 Sport Clips Toyota in Saturday's Xfinity Race and Denny Hamlin will take the wheel fo the #11 Sport Clips Toyota in the Cup Series race on Sunday. Watch as drivers earn their Darlington Stripe at the track "Too Tough to Tame."
With kids 12 and under admitted FREE, and Darlington Raceway and Sport Clips’ support of veterans and the VFW Foundation culminating in a strong military ticket offer, the Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200 is truly a unique race experience for all fans. For ticket information, click here.